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Accentuating the Liberal in Classical Liberal: Advocating Ascendency of the Individual & a Politick & Literature to Fight the Rise & Rise of the Tax Surveillance State. 'Illigitum non carborundum'.

Liberty and freedom are two proud words that have been executed from the political lexicon: they were frog marched and stood before a wall of blank minds, then forcibly blindfolded, and shot, with the whimpering staccato of ‘equality’ and ‘fairness’ resounding over and over. And not only did this atrocity go unreported by journalists in the mainstream media, they were in the firing squad.

The premise of this blog is simple: the Soviets thought they had equality, and welfare from cradle to grave, until the illusory free lunch of redistribution took its inevitable course, and cost them everything they had. First to go was their privacy, after that their freedom, then on being ground down to an equality of poverty only, for many of them their lives as they tried to escape a life behind the Iron Curtain. In the state-enforced common good, was found only slavery to the prison of each other's mind; instead of the caring state, they had imposed the surveillance state to keep them in line. So why are we accumulating a national debt to build the slave state again in the West? Where is the contrarian, uncomfortable literature to put the state experiment finally to rest?

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Thursday, February 21, 2013

Chester Borrows & Beneficiary Fraud - Calm Down Jacinda.

Chester
Borrows brought in new measures yesterday to battle benefit fraud in New
Zealand, including the ability to prosecute partners (in crime) of welfare
fraudsters. However, the day became most marked by how Labour tried
so hard to make us all look the other way. The chief diversionary tactic was
exemplified by MP Jacinda Ardern, confusing two completely separate topics, asking
why Borrows wasn’t so ruthless over hunting down and shooting tax evaders.
Twitter was alight with how Chester Borrows was beneficiary bashing, why wasn’t
he going for tax evaders, why wasn’t he going for bankers, one tweeter wanted
to know why he wasn’t taking down the HSBC.

Let
me dispel some of the confusion for the Emptiness (new collective noun) of
Airheads that’s is becoming the chief voting block in New Zealand:

Q: Why did Borrows bring in new
measures to bash beneficiaries with, not tax evaders and banker wankers?

A:
Because he’s Associate Minister of Social Development. It is Minister Dunne who
would bring in measures against tax evaders, etc and so forth. (This stuff is
not hard). It would be no more likely or appropriate he brought in measures
against these other groups, than introduce health reforms.

Q: Why is Borrows bashing
beneficiaries?

A:
He’s not. He’s merely attacking benefit fraudsters. If laws attacking benefit
fraud are beneficiary bashing, then laws attacking shop lifting are shopper bashing. To
make this mistake, the Emptiness must believe that all beneficiaries are
fraudsters?

But
my main gripe is with Jacinda who in her heart of hearts – because she doesn’t
use her head at all – plainly believes that every businessman owes beneficiaries
their living, and every businessman is a tax evader.

First,
beneficiaries and tax evaders aren’t even comparable, Jacinda: it’s like
comparing thieves to apples. Beneficiaries who are playing the system are
living off the effort of others, and are happy to see honest taxpayers have
their property, including earnings, and privacy stripped from them by force so
they can live parasitically. Tax mitigators are free men and
women living by their own means, trying to protect what is theirs – their property
– from out of control politicians who have no morality at all.

You
know, in ending, around the time of the American Revolution, the only revolution that has
had lasting good, tax evaders were called heroes and the champions of liberty.
The Jacinda’s of this world champion only Soviet styled slavery. And as for her
ludicrous statement that New Zealand’s Secret Police force, IRD, aren’t going
after tax evaders, I can only assume Jacinda is clueless as to what shock and
awe powers her Arrogance of Altruists in Wellingrad have given them: and on
this she has no excuse, because I spelled those powers out directly to her last
October, and the proof of how they are used to destroy honest taxpayers, from half way down this post.

Civilisation is a movement toward privacy, an Orwellian surveillance state the opposite, and tax legislation, especially tax administration, has become the legislation and administration of surveillance and authoritarian rule, in contravention of the rule of law, and common decency. IR

If the Founding Fathers could see how freedom is bound, again, under the iron fist of our taxing authorities; New Zealand's IRD, America's IRS, UK's HMRC, a secret police operating in every country, there would be a Western Spring.

This blog is the only form my protest can take, hoping not to become a squashed blug on the windscreen of state.

Disclaimer: If you pay anything other than the correct amount of tax - as hard as that can be to calculate under our mess of tax law - then you're a bloody idiot. The IR's are all-powerful: they are not a construct of a free, voluntary, civilised classical liberalism, they are a relic of totalitarianism. You have no liberty or privacy from the IR's, you have no legal defence against them, you cannot refuse to be interrogated, you cannot question their actions or seek judicial review holding them to account, even the burden of proof has been turned against the taxpayer; before the law, though you have done nothing wrong, you have less rights than a murderer or rapist, and this Department has been charged by the Fortress of Legislation to systematically eavesdrop and investigate all of us. Don't mess with them. And let me put on record, the IRD staffers I deal with daily are ‘good’ people, I have no complaint whatsoever on a personal/personable level; but this blog is about the principles involved, and it remains my hope there is enough of a classical liberal ethic left, admitting debate and ' difference', that this blog is taken only for the contained - to these pages - protest that it is. For let me spell it out - you, Big Brother State, have won: I.Am.Scared.Of.You.You bet I am. But there's this loon in me that can't seem to shut up. (You're lucky, my poor wife has to live with it).

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